How to test whether a service is running from the command line

Question

I would like to be able to query whether or not a service is running from a windows batch file. I know I can use:

sc query \"ServiceName\"

Answer 1

Let's go back to the old school of batch programing on windows

net start | find "Service Name"

This will work everywhere...

Answer 2

Use Cygwin Bash with:

sc query "SomeService" |grep -qo RUNNING && echo "SomeService is running." || echo "SomeService is not running!"

(Make sure you have sc.exe in your PATH.)

Answer 3

You could use wmic with the /locale option

call wmic /locale:ms_409 service where (name="wsearch") get state /value | findstr State=Running
if %ErrorLevel% EQU 0 (
    echo Running
) else (
    echo Not running
)

Answer 4

SERVICO.BAT
@echo off
echo Servico: %1
if "%1"=="" goto erro
sc query %1 | findstr RUNNING
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 2 goto trouble
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto stopped
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto started
echo unknown status
goto end
:trouble
echo trouble
goto end
:started
echo started
goto end
:stopped
echo stopped
goto end
:erro
echo sintaxe: servico NOMESERVICO
goto end

:end

Answer 5

Just to add on to the list if you are using Powershell.

sc.exe query "ServiceName" | findstr RUNNING

The command below does not work because sc is an alias to Set-Content within Powershell.

sc query "ServiceName" | findstr RUNNING

find also does not work on Powershell for some reason unknown to me.

sc.exe query "ServiceName" | find RUNNING

Answer 6

I would suggest WMIC Service WHERE "Name = 'SericeName'" GET Started

or WMIC Service WHERE "Name = 'ServiceName'" GET ProcessId (ProcessId will be zero if service isn't started)

You can set the error level based on whether the former returns "TRUE" or the latter returns nonzero